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LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2025: 11 Notable People in the Disability Community Who Intersect Into the LGBTQ+ Community

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[Image Description: The image has a cloudy red, orange, yellow, light green, medium blue, and light purple horizontally striped rainbow background with my First Former Buddy Club President logo in the bottom left corner. "LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2025" is in center-aligned turquoise text. "Notable People in the Disability Community Who Intersect into the LGBTQ+ Community" is in left-aligned dark purple text with an enlarged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple rainbow flag below. ] According to research from the Movement Advancement Project, an estimate of "3 to 5 million LGBTQ people live with one or more disabilities" (GLAAD 2025). Additionally, "nearly one in two LGBTQ+ teens in the US seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. 1 in 6 made an attempt" (The Trevor Project 2024). People in the LGBTQ+ community are at an increased risk for anxiety, depression, and attempting or dying by suicide due to the constant prejudice that ...

Women's History Month 2025: 25 Women in the Disability Community from History

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                         [Image Description: The image has a light pink cloudy background with my First Former Buddy Club President logo in the bottom left corner. "Women's History Month" is in center-aligned violet text with "Women in the Disability Community from History" in left-aligned dark purple text below it. The pink female sign is center-aligned below all of this text. ] DISCLAIMER:   All of the below photos except photo 1 are from Google Images. I do not take ownership for any of them except photo 1. 1. Kayla Kosmalski                        [Image Description:  Kayla Kosmalski and I (left to right) are smiling and standing next to each other on a sidewalk at the 2024 CHOP Philadelphia Buddy Walk outside of the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ]     Kayla Kosmalski is best known for being the Delaware teen who bro...